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There arent any exchange servers on the network, i need to migrate the users\data and create empty mailboxes, then with the exchange 2007 mail transporter too, i will fetch the existing email from the linux imap mail server.

It is possibile ( with the sbs answer tool ) to migrate ad users, promote it as dc, and create empty mailboxes, even if there isn't an exchange server on the source server ?

Or i need to install a temporary exchange 2003 server on my source server, so the sbs migration process recreates the new mailboxes ?

Look for docs relating to migrating from a standard Windows 2003 server since you are in basically a similar position. Follow the migration docs missing out the steps from Exchange. What you are basically told to do in a migration is to install the new SBS2008 box alongside the existing SBS 2003, create a connector between the two Exchange servers and then move the mailboxes from one server to the other. The next stage is to clean up the older Exchange and remove the "first Exchange server" from the site. Since you do not have exchange you can skip those steps.

TIA

Steven Teiger [SBS-MVP(2003-2009)]http://www.wintra.co.il/
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